BalkanThemes is a new initiative developed by volunteers at the Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC). It aims to provide readers with up-to-date information on a variety of topics affecting the countries of the former Yugoslavia and the Greater Balkans region. Publications will provide insights into a variety of themes and topics pertinent to countries that have experienced conflict, with a specific focus on how these issues are developing across Southeastern Europe. Because topics of focus will often be global in nature, updates on countries outside of the former Yugoslavia will also be featured periodically. Given the recent conflicts, this issue of BalkanThemes features reports on missing persons in Libya and Syria in order to provide a contrasting and contemporary context in which the case of missing persons has evolved.